Current Exhibitions

Front Lawn

MoCA Arlington and Arlington Public Art are thrilled to co-sponsor the installation of Zaq Landsberg’s celebrated Reclining Liberty on the Museum’s front lawn.

Material Matters celebrates the fifty-year legacy of MoCA Arlington’s Artist Studio Program and its role as a launch pad for artists in the Washington, DC region and beyond. Bringing together select residency alumni, the exhibition highlights the wide range of artistic practices that have emerged from the program. 

MoCA Arlington Resident Artist Rebecca Rivas-Rogers’ solo exhibition Attention to Detail features a series of new paintings of objects found inside the artist’s studio. The small-scale works are conducive to intimate looking, inviting viewers to get up close in order to notice the minute shifts in color, light, and texture within each composition.

In Rude Screen, the artist duo Crasis uses sculpture, video, and installation to consider themes of longing, seduction, evasion, and capture. Reinterpreting a visual language derived from medieval liturgical forms and science fiction, Crasis creates sculptures which function as hybrid screens.

Rowena Federico Finn’s mixed media work meticulously combines wide-ranging materials including capiz shells, piña fabric, found images, and historical texts to explore experiences of cultural displacement and histories of colonialism.

Lou Haney’s paintings embrace excess. They combine bright colors, busy patterns, and dense interiors in compositions that embrace nostalgia’s many pleasures while acknowledging its risks.

Community Patronage: Works from the Freshley Collection brings together artwork from the collection of Kathy and Jerry Freshley, longtime Arlingtonians whose art collection demonstrates their decades of commitment to supporting art and artists in Arlington and beyond.